Free stuff (UK) again

From: Rob O'Donnell <classiccmp.org_at_irrelevant.fsnet.co.uk>
Date: Thu Jul 8 18:17:48 2004

At 19:39 08/07/2004, Pete Turnbull wrote:


>I don't want to see this stuff on Ebay. If it was going to make money,
>I'd put it in the Christmas fund, or give the equipment to the local
>computer recycling project. The reason there are no PCs or other
>common items is that they're going to an African charity project.

I did actually think at the time that were it to fetch anything, I'd donate
most of the cash back to some worthy cause, given the source of the parts,
however since they wouldn't, I neglected to mention that!

> > I don't need them myself, as I've already got spare 10Mbps hubs, a
>terminal
> > server and a couple of terminals I don't use [yet]..)
> >
> > Does nobody use 10Mbps any more?
>
>It's not cool. Everyone thinks they need 100Mbps at least, or
>preferably Gigabit. The fact that their PCs mostly can't keep up with
>that seems to be immaterial, as is the fact that their web connection
>is hardly likey to keep up with the PC.

true enough .. it's not usually the local network that causes the slow
downs.. we used to put in 10Mbps hubs at some customer remote sites,
because all traffic ended up down a 64Kbs leased line or ADSL based VPN
(256K max uplink) so it made not a blind bit of difference what speed the
local LAN ran at.


> On the other hand, many of our
>students in residences love it -- it's 20 times what most of them get
>from broadband at home.

2.5Mbps here .. (2M + 512K) :-)

Rob
Received on Thu Jul 08 2004 - 18:17:48 BST